Helping Verb Fix-Up Answer Key

This worksheet presents sentences that contain incorrect helping verb usage. Students must identify the error and rewrite the entire sentence correctly. The activity strengthens editing and proofreading skills by requiring learners to analyze tense, agreement, and auxiliary structure. Students practice correcting common mistakes involving be, have, and do, as well as errors related to progressive and perfect tenses. By revising each sentence, learners develop grammatical accuracy and a deeper understanding of verb phrase construction. This task is excellent preparation for writing assessments that require error correction.

Curriculum Matched Skills

English Language Arts – Editing and Revising

English Language Arts – Grammar Error Identification

English Language Arts – Correct Verb Phrase Construction

English Language Arts – Accurate Use of Helping Verbs

This worksheet is part of our helping (auxiliary) verbs worksheets collection.